2025-12-28

Overview: The 2024 Fire Season

This presentation analyzes the spatial and temporal distribution of wildfires across Portugal using interactive data visualization. Core Objectives

Identify Peaks: pin-point periods of high fire frequency.

Impact Assessment: Analyze the scale of burned areas (ha).

Interactive Exploration: Utilize zooming and tooltips for granular data inspection.

Data Summary

Temporal Scope: January 1 – December 31, 2024.

Key Variables: Start date (DHInicio), Total Burned Area (AreaTotal), and GPS Coordinates.

Inputs and Outputs

Data Processing and Plotting

##Distribution of Burned Area (Log Scale)

Filtering for fires with actual area to avoid log(0)

Note: A log10​ value of 2 represents 100 hectares burned in a single day.

## Conclusion & Insights

Seasonality: The data reveals a clear correlation between rising summer temperatures and fire frequency.

Intensity: While most days record low burned areas, a few "extreme" days account for the majority of the annual total.

Next Steps: Integration of meteorological data (IPMA) to model fire risk based on humidity and wind speed